SC meat cutters have chance to chop off $20,000 prize. Here’s how to watch

South Carolina meat-cutters will compete Tuesday for a shot at a $20,000 national prize, braving the cold at a Columbia-area ice rink in the process.

Sixteen professional meat-cutters from South Carolina and Georgia will show off their chops at Plex HiWire Family Fun & Sports Center in Irmo in the local qualifying round of a national meat-cutting challenge sponsored by Texas Roadhouse, according to a release from the company.

Each cutter will be timed as they slice up 25 to 30 pounds of beef, consisting of one sirloin, one filet and one ribeye. The winner will be the cutter who produces the most steaks with the highest-quality cut of meat in the least amount of time.

To ensure the best cuts, the meat-cutters will ply their trade beside the sports center’s ice rink, keeping the working temperature around 38 degrees — equivalent to a steakhouse meat locker.

Bristow Marchant is currently split between covering Richland County and the 2020 presidential race. He has more than 10 years’ experience covering South Carolina. He won the S.C. Press Association’s 2015 award for Best Series on a toxic Chester County landfill fire, and was part of The State’s award-winning 2016 election coverage.